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Tuesday, 6 September 2016

Digitisations and Restorations (3) - Screenings round the world

Associate Editor (Restorations and Revivals) Simon Taaffe has
come across the following screenings. Click on the links for times etc.

At
New York’s wonderful Film Forum there are screenings of the Marx Brothers Duck Soup and Gillo
Pontecorvo’s The
Battle of Algiers. The former is
a DCP restoration the latter is restored in 4K by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine
Ritrovata, in collaboration with Casbah Films.

At
the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) there are screenings
of Kamikaze 89 in a new 35mm print. The film stars Rainer Werner
Fassbinder in one of the last films he was associated with before his untimely death in the year the film was produced. It is directed by Wolf
Gremm. Also at BAMPFA are screenings of a newly restored 35mm print of Max
Ophuls1948 Letter from an Unknown Woman. Scholar and critic David Thomson was
advertised as doing an intro Lastly there are screenings of Carol Reed’s The
Third Manin its digitally restored version.

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